If you've missed out the original Zoidberg, I'd hold off shelling out megabucks on the secondary market, as there's bound to be an encore release of him eventually. Toynami has indicated that they would like to do more encore releases, so I'd think Zoidberg would be first up.

If/when they do rerelease Zoidberg, best to crumpledung him up as there's a lot of pent-up demand for him. The first re-release of Bender shot up in price wildly on the secondary market, which is kind of crazy since he didn't even have the Robot Devil parts. Now Toynami is doing another re-release of him this summer.

Frankly, I don't get why Toynami doesn't just pump out as many of these as the market will bear, as Bender re-releases and probably Zoidbergs as well, are easy money in the bank for them and retailers. With this line getting a second wind this year with lots of big releases, I have to believe another Zoidberg release is going to happen.

PS: Toynami has been known to reply to emails, or at the very least takes note of them, so wouldn't hurt to drop them an email and add to the chorus of people requesting a Zoidberg re-release.

Don't feel bad, I passed up Fry and Zoidberg(along with his variants) back in the day. Bender seemed to be the easiest to track down, but it took me awhile to find Leela. Still looking for Zoidberg and Fry at a decent price. Since I'm a opener I'm not going to pay that much money for something I'm going to open eventually. Still, with all of the mall specialty stores closing, I'm having a hard time finding these now

He was a 2011 sdcc exclusive but there was a very long delay he literally only got shipped out last week, on that note I was curious if anyone might know why toynami seems to have such long delays from the announcement of their lines to them actually hitting store shelve?

I know this threads not related directly but I preordered series 2 of toynamis 4" naruto line back in may 2011 and they were set for a 4th quarter release and now they've been pushed back to the end of this year.

FYI toynami have a Facebook page now they don't post very regularly but it's more often than they update their actual website